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This system from Japan comes with several cameras to empower this unique cube-on-wheels to understand human gestures. Video after the break

In order to promote the new moview, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, a huge projector is built in Tokyo Harbor. Using a system based around water projection screen techniques and some water fountains, it creates a vivid monster just like a real one! Maybe! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Chocolate is delicious, but you if it is shaped in larva, you still think it is delicious?

This is a weird chocolate from Tokyo’s Chocolate and Sweets Expo. [Read the rest of this entry...]

As a business man, you might always be embarrassed by the suit washing things. Your suit is dirty, but you have no time to send it to the dry cleaner. So, you gotta like this invention from Konaka Japan.

When you need to clean your suit, just put them on clothes hangers and douse with warm water for a few minutes to clean the inside. Repeat the process to clean the outside and drip-dry.
If you have a shower, you can do this. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You might think Asimo is the best robot of the year in Japan. But you’re wrong. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) named the year’s best robots, and first place went to a two-armed robot made by Fanuc that’s equipped with a visual tracking system and works in food and drug manufacturing lines. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Digital Cowboy, a company based on Japan, has launched CRF-102 notebook cooler. This notebook comes with a huge cooling fan which gonna increase airflow and dispersing the heat from underneath with higher efficiency. Plus, the notebook cooler could elevate the notebook at angles of 15 and 32 degree. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The 12th Robo-One Grand Championship just took place in Japan over the weekend. Many two-legged robots joint this competition. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a weird bathroom of the beachside in the city of Akashi in Japan. You could pee with the fish and turtles around you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This robot from Japan, named Simroid, just seems like a realistic patient. It could react to the dentist’s performance to improve their skill. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Containing a titanium dioxide rod in the neck, this toothbrush could release electrons which would react to the acid in mouth, helping break down plaque. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This video reveal the earthrise and earthset on the moon. It is provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

The first part of the video shows the Earth rising up from the horizon near the moon’s north pole, and the second part shows the Earth setting near the moon’s south pole. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you believe that a road could play music? This road in Japan which is cut into several places is a melody road. While you driving your car at a certain speed, you could heard the music played by the road. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Karfe Lady”, a humanoid robot developed by Japan’s Nippon Engineering College could play a game of “Rock-Paper-Scissors” with man.

Recently shown at CEATEC Japan 2007, the durable, soft linen RFID tags from Fujitsu are built into the uniforms so that when scanned by the system, an accurate recording of information regarding the status of the clothing including the wearer can be provided. It could track the information about the rental process. Plus, its effective length is about 4 feet which make it easy to scanning into one batch without actually touching the uniforms.

This weird green guy is actually a sensor-laden robot. It could react based on your action. Plus, you could also see a virtual buddy via the head equipment. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This weird robot from Tokyo University could jump like a frog. It’s jumping way is vividly, just like a real frog. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This Infobars 2 cellphone is a fairly cool phone. It looks like a balloon. But it won’t be broken by puncturing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This robot from Japan could mimic the speaking way of human by its silicone tongue and a motorized lower jaw encapsulated in an artificial mouth structure. Although it’s not a perfect product, it might a good way for artificial intelligent.

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Researchers from Waseda University in Japan have developed this incredible face-shifter. Because of 56 degree of freedom, it could be show expression just like real man. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you are lack of juice (I mean battery), what would you do?

Whatever! But you gonna have a fundamentally alternative right now. It’s a battery which is powered by your pee. If you are lack of juice (I still mean battery), you could just add some pee! [Read the rest of this entry...]

You still remember Patlabor? But we are not talking about the cartoon. It’s a real robotic cop from Japan. Video after the jump

What will you feel when you know the robot could remember you and recognize you as a repeat customer?

This robot from Japan could give you better shopping guidance based on information contained in an electronic tag attached to the shopper’s cellphone.

By heating up the oxygen and nitrogen molecules: up to 1,000 brilliant dots per second, this new display system which is developed by Japan’s boffins, could provide 3D animation in mid-air. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Panasonic just show their new car which could run at the speed up to 100km/hr.

Last year, some students from Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a plane which is also gain juice from AA batteries. Video after the jump [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a weird toilet from Japan. You can change your squatting toilet into a more comfortable one by adding this accessory. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a new crazy billboard AD lanched by Adidas in Tokyo. It’s reeeeealy cool!

This 2.5-inch full color flexible OLED display is only .3mm thick. It’s pretty cool. You can even blend it like a plastic piece. Video after the jump. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If I tell you Japanese government has been doing with 12 million dollars for the past two years, can you guess what project is it? It’s a bionic baby seal for lonely old people. It’s very cute. Video after the jump [Read the rest of this entry...]

A fresh salmon fish? What could it be used for other than eating?

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This is a interactive stuff from B eyes Japan. It is capable of capturing movement via a camera and display interactive image. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Japanese like washlet because it is useful to prevent hemorrhoids. They hope to use this gadget in any restroom, but it is not available in most public restroom. Therefore, they are TOTO release this travel washlet. However, because of lacking heated blow-drying capability, you have to dry-up wiping after using it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you know which is the biggest TV in the world? It’s built for the Japan Racing Association (JRA) by Mitsubishi Electric measuring 37 feet x 218 feet, which is about 4 stories high! Don’t believe? Watch the video!

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